Irish Sea Sunset at Llanon Ceredigion Wales Art Landscape Painting Pastel by Edward McNaught-Davis

Irish Sea Sunset at Llanon Ceredigion Wales Art Landscape Painting

by Edward McNaught-Davis

Canvas Print

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Framed Print

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Art Print

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Wood Print

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Throw Pillow

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Spiral Notebook

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Title

Irish Sea Sunset at Llanon Ceredigion Wales Art Landscape Painting

Artist

Edward McNaught-Davis

Medium

Pastel - Oil Pastel On Card

Description

A quick oil pastel painting of an Irish sea sunset at Llanon Ceredigion is a simple landscape Welsh artwork captured on the spur of the moment from Llanon’s stony beach one evening.

The coastal village of Llanon is situated between Aberaeron and Aberystwyth and is only a few miles South of Llanrhystud along the A487. All are part of Cardigan Bay in mid West Wales.

There is not much to see of any note at Llanon beach except for thousands of stones and pebbles washed up by the incoming tide. As a result, visiting will undoubtedly mean having the whole beach to yourself as it is difficult to walk over mounds of slippery and ankle breaking stones.

Dog walkers do not normally visit either. Getting to Llanon beach is not that obvious and involves walking through alley ways starting from Llanon village and its coastal road and then subsequently over a designated path in a field. It’s best to ask locals for the best way to approach it.

Once on the stony beach you can walk in either direction towards Llanryhstud or Aberarth and onto Aberaeron but it is inadvisable as the terrain is hard going. In theory you could visit while the tide is right out as then sand will be exposed and so easier underfoot but still you would have to pick your way over many inhospitable stones to get to it.

When I visited the tide was in. I was waiting for my car to be fixed by a local garage and rather than waiting at the garage I went off to explore the local village and to find the said beach.

At the time of my visit I had a small sketch book purposely made for pastels and a small selection of artist quality oil pastels comprising basic colours of about eight in all. I felt inspired to paint the colourful evening sky and in particular the green light along with the orange and red colours of the dying sun.

The foreground clouds were drifting passed as I was about to finish painting and so I put them in quickly. It wasn’t until a few days later that I found my near exact clouds on a poster in someone’s office during a business meeting.

The poster was a copy of a painting made by Monet. I thought it all rather strange that I should reproduce Monet’s clouds and without knowing he drew clouds in a similar fashion.